Software Development Engineer, Business Data Technologies, SDE (Level 5)

Amazon's eCommerce Foundation (eCF) organization is responsible for the core components that drive the Amazon website and customer experience. Serving millions of customer page views and orders per day, eCF builds for scale. As an organization within eCF, the Business Data Technologies (BDT) group collects petabytes of data from thousands of data sources inside and outside Amazon, including the catalog system, inventory system, customer order system, and page views on the website.

BDT provides interfaces for internal customers to access and query data hundreds of thousands of times per day, using Amazon Web Service's (AWS) Redshift, Hive, and Spark. The team is building an enterprise-wide Big Data Marketplace leveraging AWS technologies, working closely with AWS teams like EMR/Spark, Redshift, Athena, S3, and others.

As an L5 SDE in the data catalog discovery and data access logs aggregator team, you will:

• Lead product and tech initiatives within the team and beyond
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders and teams
• Develop technical strategies and designs for complex customer problems
• Deliver working software systems spanning the full software lifecycle
• Review other SDEs' work to ensure quality, extensibility, performance, and security

This role requires not only top-notch software development skills and understanding of big data and parallelization but also excellence in leadership, customer obsession, and a passion for massive-scale computing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build extremely scalable components and cutting-edge features
• Formulate strategy and direction for Big Data at Amazon
• Mentor junior engineers
• Work with sophisticated customers to help them achieve the best results

If you're passionate about building the future of Data and want to be part of a team developing innovative products like the next-generation data catalog, data discovery engine, and data transformation platform, this role at Amazon's Business Data Technologies group could be an excellent opportunity for you.